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Poorly imitated but never duplicated, this week’s other news includes Lenovo’s about-face on Superfish, an NSA and GCHQ hack of SIM cards, AT&T jump the shark moment, a confirmation that, yes, North Korea did hack Sony, Microsoft reneges on promise of Finland data center, and Microsoft partners with Mozilla on web games. “Microsoft Has Suddenly…

Jeff James explains the who, what, why, and how of Lenovo Superfish adware, including how to detect and remove the software from your Lenovo PC.

Crapware and bloatware has been making PC user experiences horrible for decades. Jeff Hicks explains why the Superfish fiasco carries some lessons for PC makers and IT pros as well.

Microsoft has announced that Azure Site Recovery will now support the orchestration of site-to-site storage area network (SAN) replication for customers with Hyper-V and System Center.

Most organizations these days are taking a close look at cloud-based Email what it means to their business.  Our guest Michael VanHorenbeeck; Exchange MVP and Microsoft Certified Master, is also known as VanHybrid.  His expertise with Exchange deployments that are partially on-premises and partially in the cloud have earned him this great nickname.  We will discuss what this…

Aidan Finn provides some tips for estimating your bandwidth requirements for replicating Hyper-V virtual machines to Azure.

Jeff Hicks wraps up his system uptime clock article series by showing you how to create a a PowerShell module.

Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab in Russia report that they have discovered how American intelligence agencies have subverted computer hardware, software and networks in an effort to spy on other countries. The surveillance and sabotage technologies have been discovered in systems in China, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, and elsewhere. Kaspersky has a policy of not naming…

Microsoft’s Brad Smith announced this morning that Microsoft is the first cloud provider to adopt the ISO/IEC 27018 cloud privacy standard.

Jeff Hicks continues his PowerShell journey by looking at a script that finds system time and provides tips for formatting results.

Resetting Azure Active Directory password is simple with a little help from PowerShell in this quick, how-to article by Russell Smith.

In this article, Jeff Hicks shows us how we can create a PowerShell tool that can ping a range of IP addresses.